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...volume of funds involved reduces corruption risks. Those programs don't require helicopters or fleets of vehicles, and they pay for themselves through the economic benefits that they generate. They fail to catch the public eye, however, and hence remain desperately underfunded. Yet it is by making modest investments in very large numbers of the most vulnerable people in the world that millions can enjoy a better, longer life. And the need for high-profile crisis interventions will be reduced. Andrew MacMillan Scansano, Italy Overstretched Referees Re "Officially wrong" [July 3], about the World Cup referees making bad calls...
Most Asian carmakers have taken a humble route to U.S. shores: Toyota's 1968 Corolla carried a modest price tag; South Korea followed in 1986 with the Hyundai Excel. Chinese carmakers Geely and Chery both hope to storm the low end of the U.S. market. But China's Nanjing Automobile Group wants to raise the bar by selling roadsters in the U.S. from 2008 under the famous MG marque. Nanjing, which bought MG Rover last year, hopes to build the $25,000 MG TF coupes in Oklahoma at the first Chinese auto factory on American soil-a long way from...
...hydrogen atom would have to produce its note of apology about why it does not radiate." Yet one day later, Hilbert sent a paper to a scientific journal with his own version of the equations for general relativity. The title he picked for his piece was not a modest one. "The Foundations of Physics," he called...
There was also the question of paying for the skis. Einstein was not pleased. He replied that he would send Hans Albert a gift in cash, "but I do think that a luxury gift costing 70 francs does not match our modest circumstances," he wrote, underlining the phrase...
Colonel Douglas Evans sits in his modest office at Red River Army Depot, tracking the dozens of war-battered humvees from Iraq that arrive every week to be repaired. Spread across 36,000 acres in Texarkana, Texas, the World War II--era Red River facility is one of the Army's oldest and most important maintenance and storage bases. But Evans, a 24-year Army vet with combat tours in the Balkans and Iraq, says what soldiers need to understand these days is not only bombs and bullets but also diapers...